The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is a fixture in that calendar where news and socializing meet, where the great, the good and the not so good mix with each other and the media. It certainly beats events like the World Bank/IMF annual meeting with its overload of bankers and economists. Here there are scientists and artists as well as familiar politicians and business figures. This year there is also extra snow, and Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac are at the top of the bill. The United States accounts for 40 percent; Britain, 15 percent; and the rest of Europe, 20 percent. Add in a few others, like Australia, and nearly 80 percent are from the Western, developed world. .South Africa gets a respectable showing, as does the Arab world. But the rest of Africa is barely represented, and, despite the appearance of President Luiz In